Category: Exploration

Plan charta tilhorande underrattelsen om Captn Cook sista uptackter

Price: $500.00

Publisher: Stockholm, : c. 1800

Seller ID: 4487

A map showing the third Cook voyage(1776-1780). Paper : 23.7 x 25.7; plate 16 x 20.5 cm. Scale 1:60m. Degrees: N80 S00; E130 - E250
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Colon y Canarias

By: Alejandro Cioranescu

Price: $110.00

Publisher: Spain, La Laguna de Tenerife : 1959

Seller ID: 5437

Condition: Good+

In Spanish text. Printed paper wraps. Some foxing to pages throughout. Inscribed in blue ink to half-title page. 227 pp. 6 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches. First Edition.
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Image for Fate of the Blenden Hall, East Indiaman, Captain Alexander Greig, Bound to Bombay: with an Account of Her Wreck, and the Suffering and Privations Endured by the Survivors, for Six Months, on the Desolate Islands of Inaccessible and Tristan D'Acunha, in Lat 37'29' South. Long 11'45' West.

Fate of the Blenden Hall, East Indiaman, Captain Alexander Greig, Bound to Bombay: with an Account of Her Wreck, and the Suffering and Privations Endured by the Survivors, for Six Months, on the Desolate Islands of Inaccessible and Tristan D'Acunha, in Lat 37'29' South. Long 11'45' West.

By: Alexander M. Greig

Price: $800.00

Publisher: New York, William H. Colyer : 1847

Seller ID: 7970

Condition: Very Good

Brown debossed cloth boards with gilt title to spine. Professional repairs to the head and tail of spine (see image one). Small piece of cloth is missing to rear board (see image two). Occasional foxing. No previous owners' names or other markings. 5 x 7.5 in First Edition.
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Islario General de todas las Islas del Mundo WITH Atlas

By: Alonso de Santa Cruz & Antonio Blazquez

Price: $750.00

Publisher: Madrid, Imprenta de Patronato de Huerfanos de Intendencia e Intervencion Militares : 1918-20

Seller ID: 2935

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Scarce. 1/150 copies. Quarter brown morocco over brown cloth boards. Gilt particulars and raised bands to spine. Bumps to fore edge corners. Marbled endpapers. Small bookplate of previous owner to front pastedown. Bound with atlas volume consisting of 120 maps (recto only). A nice clean copy. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 559,120, iv pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. .
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Vasco Nunez de Balboa Estudio Historico por Angel de Altolaguirre y Duvale De la Real Academia de la Historia

By: Angel de Altolaguirre y Duvale

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Madrid, La Corporacion : 1914

Seller ID: 2916

Condition: Very Good

Half mottled spanish leather, gilt particulars and raised bands to spine. A nice clean copy without previous owners' names or other markings. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 231 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. . First Edition.
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Image for Conversaciones de Ulloa con sus tres Hijos en Servicio de la Marina instructivas y curiosas, sobre las Navegaciones, y modo de Hacerlas, el Pilotage, y la Maniobra: Noticia de Vientos, Mares, Corrientes, Paxaros, Pescados y Anfibios y de los fenómenos que se observan en los mares en las redondez del Globo.

Conversaciones de Ulloa con sus tres Hijos en Servicio de la Marina instructivas y curiosas, sobre las Navegaciones, y modo de Hacerlas, el Pilotage, y la Maniobra: Noticia de Vientos, Mares, Corrientes, Paxaros, Pescados y Anfibios y de los fenómenos que se observan en los mares en las redondez del Globo.

By: Antonio Ulloa

Price: $900.00

Publisher: Madrid, Imprenta de Sancha : 1795

Seller ID: 3641

Condition: Very Good

Original full vellum with inked title. Professional repair to fore edge. Sabin 97684. 263 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail.
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Image for The Giants of Patagonia: Captain Bourne's Account of his Captivity Amongst the Extraordinary Savages of Patagonia to which is added, the painfully interesting narrative of the fate of the Patagonian society's mission in Terra del Fuego

The Giants of Patagonia: Captain Bourne's Account of his Captivity Amongst the Extraordinary Savages of Patagonia to which is added, the painfully interesting narrative of the fate of the Patagonian society's mission in Terra del Fuego

By: Captain Benjamin Franklin Bourne

Price: $220.00

Publisher: London, Ingram, Cooke, and co. : 1853

Seller ID: 7833

Condition: Very Good

Scarce London edition. Quarter red morocco with gilt stamped title to spine. Contains the six original engravings: a frontispiece, a title vignette, and four full-page illustrations. Inscribed Y.R. Clapham, Austwick Hall to verso of frontispiece. Traces of illegible stamp to title page and page 1 of text. 4.3 x 6.7 inches. First Edition.
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Image for They All Discovered America. A rich, unconventional, and imaginative recounting of the explorers of the Western Hemisphere from the Phoenicians to Columbus. Illustrated with maps and photographs.

They All Discovered America. A rich, unconventional, and imaginative recounting of the explorers of the Western Hemisphere from the Phoenicians to Columbus. Illustrated with maps and photographs.

By: Charles Michael Boland

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, Doubleday and Company, Inc. : 1961

Seller ID: 3211

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Grey cloth boards with particulars stamped to front cover and spine. Slight losses to edges of dust jacket which has since been protected in mylar wrapping. Stated First edition. A clean, crisp copy without previous owners' names or other markings. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xv, 384 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. Dust jacket present. First Edition.
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Image for Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America. From a manuscript recently discovered in Spain. Translated from the Spanish.

Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America. From a manuscript recently discovered in Spain. Translated from the Spanish.

By: Christopher Columbus

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Boston, Thomas B. Wait & Son : 1827

Seller ID: 2895

Condition: Very Good

Green cloth boards with gilt title to spine. Light worming to fore edge. Decorative endpapers. Obituary of Samuel Kettell, an editor apparently involved in the publication of the book, affixed to verso of front free fly. Foxing throughout. Otherwise, a nice copy without previous owner's names or other markings. Sabin 14668. viii;303 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail.
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Image for Navegantes Guipuzcoanos por D. Ramon Seoane y Ferrer, Marquez de Seoane Correspondiente de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (Navegantes Guipuzcoanos por D. Ramon Seoane y Ferrer, MarquÃ©s de Seoane Correspondiente de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando)

Navegantes Guipuzcoanos por D. Ramon Seoane y Ferrer, Marquez de Seoane Correspondiente de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (Navegantes Guipuzcoanos por D. Ramon Seoane y Ferrer, MarquÃ©s de Seoane Correspondiente de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando)

By: D. Ramon Seoane y Ferrer

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Madrid, Impr. de la seccion de hidrografia : 1908

Seller ID: 5631

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original wraps bound in half green leather over cloth boards. Gilt particulars and raised bands to spine. Small bookplate of previous owner to front pastedown. Marbled endpapers. 33 hors texte plates. A nice clean copy. 8" - 9" tall; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail.
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Image for [7 books bound as 1] 1) Lettre a M. Francois Salvolini, sur les Monumens Egyptiens; 2) Palestine Exploration Society, No. 2, Second Statement; 3) De Natura et Indole Linguae Popularis Aegyptiorum 4) Die Adonisklage und das Linoslied; 5) Die Umschreibung der Iranischen Sprachen un des Armenischen; 6) Das achtzehnte Kapitel des Wendidad ubersetzt und erklart; 7) Das Allgemeine Linguistische Alphabet

[7 books bound as 1] 1) Lettre a M. Francois Salvolini, sur les Monumens Egyptiens; 2) Palestine Exploration Society, No. 2, Second Statement; 3) De Natura et Indole Linguae Popularis Aegyptiorum 4) Die Adonisklage und das Linoslied; 5) Die Umschreibung der Iranischen Sprachen un des Armenischen; 6) Das achtzehnte Kapitel des Wendidad ubersetzt und erklart; 7) Das Allgemeine Linguistische Alphabet

By: Dr. Conradus Leemans; Palestine Exploration Society; Henrico (Heinrich) Brugsch; Heinrich Hubschmann; Dr. Martin Haug; Dr. Richard Lepsius

Price: $300.00

Publisher: Leide; New Jersey; Berlin; Leipzig; Munich, Chez H. W. Hazenberg et Comp.; Hackensack; Prostat in Libraria Dummleriana; Breitkopf und Hartel; F. Straub; Wilhelm Hertz : 1838; 1850; 1852; 1855; 1869; 18

Seller ID: 5116

Condition: Good

1) Dr. Conradus Leemans, Lettre a M. Francois Salvolini, sur les Monumens Egyptiens, portant des legendes royales, dans musees d'antiquites de leide, de londres, et dans quelques collections particulieres en angleterre , 1838. Chez H. W. Hazenberg et Comp., Leide. 160 pp., XXXII (32) plates 2) Palestine Exploration Society, No. 2, Second Statement, September 1873, Hackensack, N.J. 76 pp., [vi] 3) Henrico Brugsch, De Natura et Indole Linguae Popularis Aegyptiorum. Fasciculus prior de Nomine, de Dialectis, de Litterarum Sonis , 1850. Prostat in Libraria Dummleriana, Berolini. 40 pp. 4) Dr. Heinr...
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Image for Los Viajeros Modernos o Relaciones de los Viajes mas Interesantes e Instructivos que se Hicieron en los Siglos XVI, XVII y XVIII con Biografias Notas e Indicaciones Iconograficas....

Los Viajeros Modernos o Relaciones de los Viajes mas Interesantes e Instructivos que se Hicieron en los Siglos XVI, XVII y XVIII con Biografias Notas e Indicaciones Iconograficas....

By: Eduardo Charton

Price: $120.00

Publisher: Paris, Correo de Ultramar : 1861

Seller ID: 1444

Condition: Very Good

Handsome copy in quarter burgundy morocco, blind & gilt embossed boards, all edges gilt. Foxing throughout nonetheless a handsome nicely hinged copy (see image). ; royal octavo; vi, 480,[1] pages.
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Decouverte de l'Amerique par les Normands au X Siecle

By: Gabriel Gravier

Price: $170.00

Publisher: Rouen, France, Esperance Cagniard : 1874

Seller ID: 2954

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Rouen, France: Esperance Cagniard. Very Good. 1874. Hardcover. 103 of only 150 copies. Original printed wraps bound in half brown morocco over paper covered boards. Gilt particulars and decoration to spine. Raised bands to spine. Decorative endpapers. Light foxing throughout. A nice copy.; 8vo 8 - 9 tall; xxxix,250 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. .
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Image for The Discovery of North America, A Critical, Documentary, and Historic Investigation, with an essay on the early cartography of the New World, including descriptions of two hundred and fifty maps or globes existing or lost, constructed before the year 1536...

The Discovery of North America, A Critical, Documentary, and Historic Investigation, with an essay on the early cartography of the New World, including descriptions of two hundred and fifty maps or globes existing or lost, constructed before the year 1536...

By: Henry Harrisse

Price: $1,450.00

Publisher: Paris, London, H. Welter, Henry Stevens and Son : 1892

Seller ID: 5335

Condition: Very Good

Quarter morocco over pictorial maroon cloth board with gilt particulars to spine. Top edge gilt. Limited edition copy No. 91 of 380 issued, this being the English Toned Paper edition. Hors textes plates with tissue guards throughout. Black and white illustrations throughout text as well. Title continued: "to which are added a chronology of one hundred voyages westward, projected, attempted, or accomplished between 1431 and 1504; biographical accounts of the three hundred pilots who first crossed the Atlantic; and a copious list of the original names of American regions, caciqueships, mountains...
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Image for The Wonders of Elora; of, the Narrative of a Journey to the Temples and Dwellings Excavated out of a Mountain of Granite and Extending Upwards of a Mile and a Quarter, at Elora, in the East Indies, by the Route of Poona, Ahmed-Nuggur, and Toka Returning by Dowlutabad and Aurungabad; with some General Observations on the People and Country

The Wonders of Elora; of, the Narrative of a Journey to the Temples and Dwellings Excavated out of a Mountain of Granite and Extending Upwards of a Mile and a Quarter, at Elora, in the East Indies, by the Route of Poona, Ahmed-Nuggur, and Toka Returning by Dowlutabad and Aurungabad; with some General Observations on the People and Country

By: John B. Seely

Price: $200.00

Publisher: London, Geo. B. Whittaker : 1825

Seller ID: 2860

Condition: Very Good

Half morocco over marbled boards. Gilt particulars and decorative motif to spine. Hinges weak but firmly attached. A nice clean copy without previous owners' names or other markings. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xx;597 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail.
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Image for Capt. John Mason; the Founder of New Hampshire; Including his Tract on Newfoundland, 1620; the American Charters in which he was a Grantee; with Letters and Other Historical Documents; together with a Memoir by Charles Wesley Tuttle

Capt. John Mason; the Founder of New Hampshire; Including his Tract on Newfoundland, 1620; the American Charters in which he was a Grantee; with Letters and Other Historical Documents; together with a Memoir by Charles Wesley Tuttle

By: John Ward Dean

Price: $300.00

Publisher: Boston, The Prince Society : 1887

Seller ID: 2855

Condition: Fine

1 of only 250 copies. Recent green faux morocco with original wrappers bound in. Particulars in gilt to spine. Fold out map of Newfoundland. A very nice, clean copy without previous owners' names or other markings. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xii; 492 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail.
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Image for La Carabela Santa Maria. Apuntes para su reconstitucion compuestos por el Teniente de Navio, Piloto de dirigible, don Julio F. Guillen y Tato

La Carabela Santa Maria. Apuntes para su reconstitucion compuestos por el Teniente de Navio, Piloto de dirigible, don Julio F. Guillen y Tato

By: Julio F. Guillen y Tato

Price: $350.00

Publisher: Madrid, Imprenta del Ministerio de Marina : 1927

Seller ID: 2947

Condition: Very Good

84 of only 120 copies. Original wraps bound in blue morocco with particulars to spine. Marbled slipcase. Marbled endpapers. Inscribed by editor: "A Guillermo Tamayo con los mejores deseos para el y para su Museo, con todo cordial afecto Julio Guillen Md. 4 ag 1953" ; Oblong 4to 11" - 13" tall; [239] pages; Signed by Editor; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. .
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Image for A personal narrative of a journey to the source of the river Oxus: by the route of the Indus, Kabul, and Badakhshan, performed under the sanction of the Supreme Government of India, in the years 1836, 1837, and 1838

A personal narrative of a journey to the source of the river Oxus: by the route of the Indus, Kabul, and Badakhshan, performed under the sanction of the Supreme Government of India, in the years 1836, 1837, and 1838

By: Lieutenant John Wood

Price: $375.00

Publisher: London, John Murray : 1841

Seller ID: 3027

Condition: Very Good

Brown cloth. New black cloth spine with particulars in gilt. Date to spine incorrectly reads 1814. Inscription to front fly dated 1841. Folding map. ; tall; xv, 424, 12 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. First Edition.
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Image for The Silver Map of the World. A Contemporary Medallion Commemorative of Drake's Great Voyage (1577-80). A Geographical Essay. Including some Critical Remarks on the Zeno Narrative and Chart of 1558.

The Silver Map of the World. A Contemporary Medallion Commemorative of Drake's Great Voyage (1577-80). A Geographical Essay. Including some Critical Remarks on the Zeno Narrative and Chart of 1558.

By: Miller Christy

Price: $200.00

Publisher: London, Henry Stevens : 1900

Seller ID: 1509

Condition: Very Good

A nice clean uncut copy without use. Deckled edges; gilt lettering to spine. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xii, 67, [16] adv, pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. First Edition.
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Voyage au Nord de l'Europe, particulierement a Copenhague, Stockholm, et Petersbourg. Traduit de l'Anglois d'apres la seconde edition.

By: Nathaniel Wraxall

Price: $400.00

Publisher: Leiden, Chez la Freres Murray : 1783

Seller ID: 3122

Condition: Very Good

Full brown calf. Gilt particulars to red morocco label to spine. Five decorative gilt bands to spine. A nice clean copy of this hard to find book without previous owners' names or other markings. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 262 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. .
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Category: Exploration